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Jacky56Lin Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Looks on /at the calendar. help me please.

Dear Teachers



--What is today’s date? He looks on the calendar. And says it’s March tenth.



Can I use “looks at” instead of “looks on”? Why?



Thanks a lot.
  

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Jacky56Lin --What is today’s date? He looks on the calendar. And says it’s March tenth.

— Avangi

  • Jacky56Lin --What is today’s date?
  • He looks on the calendar.
  • And says it’s March tenth.
  • "Looks at the calendar" is the natural choice.
  • The calendar is one of those things which always seems to be on display.
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Jacky56Lin--What is today’s date? He looks on the calendar. And says it’s March tenth.
"Looks at the calendar" is the natural choice.

The calendar is one of those things which always seems to be on display.
Of course I exaggerate, but wherever you are, there seem to be one. He looks at the moon.
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Hello Teacher Avangi. Thank you for your great answer!



In my thought, can I just use the word check instead?

Q1:

"look at the list!" >> check the list, when the calendar is in front of you

Look it up on your list!" >> go check your list, when the calendar is not in front of you.
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"Check" is fine.
[Go] check the/your list/calendar.

In the blue section, I use "one" as a pronoun. In this case, all three of them stand for "a calendar."

In earlier text, we refer to a certain class of things, or to a group of things. Then later, we mention "just one" of them.
I love tigers, but I have never seen one. (I love tig
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Thank you very much Teacher Avangi

Now I learned a lot about the usage of the word "one"

Tabnks again
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